Base-model Macs won't be able to take advantage of Apple's flagship Xcode 16 feature: Predictive Code Completion.

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple’s claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won’t be able to use it. There’s a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it’s the closest thing we’ll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn’t really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

  • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    5 months ago

    You can always switch to a text based terminal and free up your memory. Just don’t compain that YouTube doesn’t play 4K videos anymore.

      • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        MPV doesn’t work in terminal (well, technically it does, but what’s the point of 4K HDR video in ASCII mode?). Please don’t confuse terminal emulator in GUI mode with a real text mode terminal.

        • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
          31·
          5 months ago

          The point is that your example use case of “YouTube 4k videos” doesn’t need a browser full of bloated js garbage.

          • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            5 months ago

            The point is that MPV will use shitloads of memory too.

            • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
              21·
              5 months ago

              Actually lot less than the browser. Under 300MB, I just checked, and that’s mostly just the network buffer which is 150MB by default.

              • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                5 months ago

                That’s about what my Slack is using, while being written in Electron, lol. Oh, you people…

        • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          KMSDRM is in terminal enough for me. Fbcon too.

          EDIT: obviously not dummy terminal over UART or like that.